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]]> 22 Jul 2007 04:51:56 A libray (DLL) to make easier the development using OpenGL.
Plus a spacial 3D simulator to test the library.

]]> 17 Jul 2007 09:54:13 In Valhalla knights you start as a newbie hero who is suffering from amnesia. In addition you can hear a voice in your head telling you about a danger to the world and that you're the one who can change the fate. Strange situation, isn't it? Well, this is how the story begins...
Valhalla Knights is nice looking, decent role-playing game. It features very good realtime battle system, where you are controlling one member of the party while other members are controlled by computer. Obviously you can switch between characters at any time.
Visual side of the game is very compelling. Everyone will be amazed by beautiful character design and unique locations.

]]> 17 Jul 2007 02:25:58 You play as Johnny Blaze aka Ghost Rider.

]]> 11 Jul 2007 11:34:44 In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts only to discover that much of the wizarding community has been led to believe that the story of the teenager's recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort is a lie, putting Harry’s integrity in question.

Worse, the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, has appointed a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, the duplicitous Professor Dolores Umbridge. But Professor Umbridge's "Ministry-approved" course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared to defend themselves against the Dark Forces threatening them, so at the prompting of his friends Hermione and Ron, Harry is convinced to take matters into his own hands.

Meeting secretly with a small group of students who name themselves "Dumbledore's Army," Harry teaches them how to defend themselves against the Dark Arts, preparing the courageous young wizards for the extraordinary battle that lies ahead.

]]> 04 Jul 2007 12:08:46 Silverfall is an immense, intensely paced role-playing/action game within an amazing universe. In a kingdom where nature and technology are opposed, the forces of evil seize magic places in order to take over their power.

Incarnate a hero and progress in a fantastic adventure full of numerous quests. Explore a fantasy world and discover an innovative magic environment. Get ready to face countless terrifying creatures and formidable bosses that inhabit the lands of the Nelwë kingdom. Develop more than 130 spells and skills and surround yourself with the best companions to become the hero who will combat the coming of the Order of Nothingness.

]]> 01 Jul 2007 10:03:25 Hexaxis XXI is an addictive dice based puzzle game. If you enjoy Lumines, or Bombastic, you are in for a treat. More complicated than both games combined but so intuitive once you learn the simple techniques. Line up the dice by the number of the sides, 2 two's, 3 three's,all the way to 6 sixes. Combos 'wipe out' when the wipe line crosses over them. Try your hardest not to drop a 1 as it will flip the screen around and usually happens when you are nearing the top of the grid! Simple as Dice? Think again!


Features:
17 unique levels with completely different effects and colors
20 unique music tracks of varying style.
Training mode for learning how to play and teaching techniques
Quick Play mode for a 3-minute challenge
Advanced and Standard mode for a longer challenge
High Score table keeps track of all the multipliers, high scores and streaks

]]> 28 Jun 2007 12:12:07 This is a two-dimensional RPG for the PSP in 2005, a port of the Japanese-only PlayStation game which was released in 1996. It follows the story of Prince Pietro (of the kingdom of PoPoLoCrois) as he goes on a quest to awaken his mother, Queen Sania, from a deep sleep. He finds allies soon in the journey, including a witch and a knight.

Battle system
The battle system is similar to the active time-based structure seen in the Final Fantasy series and in Chrono Trigger. However, in PoPoLoCrois, battles can be set to an Auto mode in which the characters will follow a set of AI instructions, such as Assault (which attacks and uses special skills), Attack (which attacks but uses no special skills), and Defend (which has characters try to keep their HP as high as possible). The battle system is fought in a way which could be seen as a scaled-down version of the battles in tactical RPG's such as Final Fantasy Tactics. The game's battles are generally very easy when compared to other RPG's.

Pricing
The game is normally found at about $19.99, but Gamestop is having a sale until July, 2007 which has the game priced at $9.99. With the coupon code "SAVER", you can get free shipping on the Gamestop website, meaning you pay only $9.99 + sales tax and the game is shipped right to your door. Link to Gamestop sale (click PSP): http://www.gamestop.com/gs/gamedays/

]]> 26 Jun 2007 03:42:16 Made with Microsoft's Game Studio Express by loving fans. This is basically a 2-D version of the 64's Smash Bros. game. The game supports up to 4 players going head to head and has various modes such as: capture the flag, race, deathmatch and more. The game also comes packaged with a level editor so you can make new levels to smash your friends! This game is tremendously fun and is definitely worth a download, especially because the full game is completely FREE!

]]> 16 Jun 2007 12:54:52 La villa del seis is a multiplatform point-and-click graphical psychological terror adventure in PHP and DHTML that uses mouse and keyboard optionally.
Also, you can play it like a text adventure (interactive fiction) on a text browser or without JavaScript.
The game uses Yasmina's Quest motor but altered and improved.
You can use the motor/engine/parser to create your own adventure if you know PHP and JavaScript.
This cross-platform and cross-browser game was tested under PC (Windows, BeOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Syllable, SkyOS, etc), MAC (Mac OS 7.1, Mac OS X), Amiga, console (Nintendo DS, PSP, Dreamcast, XBOX), etc.

]]> 13 Jun 2007 10:55:39 La Carta Mas Alta is an open source card game totally written in PHP and HTML.
This cross-platform and cross-browser game was tested under BeOS, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows and others.

]]> 13 Jun 2007 10:40:44 Yasmina's Quest is an open source game (and motor) mix of graphical point-and-click adventure and text adventure written in PHP and DHTML (JavaScript, CSS and HTML) that uses mouse and keyboard optionally.
You can use the motor/engine/parser to create your own adventure if you know PHP and JavaScript.
This cross-platform and cross-browser game was tested under BeOS, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows and others.

]]> 13 Jun 2007 10:15:26 GUN is an action-packed game set in the wild west.

You start off as a hunter Colton White who works with his father Ned (voice by kris kristofferson) until something changes Colton's life forever. A long winding plot unfolds as you have to explore the lawless West to uncover the dark truth.

GUN is a fantastic 3rd person shooter with plenty of side missions to break up the main story. There is plenty of Old Western movie references and the atmosphere of the West is captured perfectly.

The action never stops. If riding horseback and shooting outlaws is your thing, then this is definitely your type of game!

]]> 12 Jun 2007 06:04:11 Rampage World Tour was a reinvention of the original arcade classic; created for Midway Mfg. by the original designers, Jeff Nauman and Brian Colin and the crew at Game Refuge Inc.

The game follows George Lizzy and Ralph as they smash and fight their way through hundreds of cities around the Globe. This update game added dimension to the characters andadvanced the storyline, but stayed true to the user-friendly "there's no wrong way to play it" gameplay mechanic of the original.

Though incredibly violent, the game treats all interaction with a cartoony, blood-free, tongue-in-cheek approach that keeps the action light-hearted and appealing to players of all ages.

This "Sequal" has spun off a number of additional "Rampages" on a number of platforms .. but many feel that RWT was the best of the lot.

]]> 12 Jun 2007 11:06:40 Snail Alert 2 was born in a 48 hours competition and I decided to make it a bit better since people enjoyed it much.
In this game you control a small, round ship attached to a parachute which will help you to keep yourself in the air.
The objective of the game is avoid that the snails climb to the roof and explode themselfs making the roof go down. You have to use pressured water to control the ship and to throw the snails down to the water.

]]> 09 Jun 2007 11:14:44 The adventure begins when Lara is hired by a powerful syndicate to retrieve a mythical object called the Scion. As Lara searches ancient tombs and isolated worlds that have lain undisturbed for thousands of years, she discovers that she is not alone. Not only has she awoken their fearsome guardians but there are others desperate to learn the Scion’s dark secrets.

Celebrate and commemorate ten years of Tomb Raider and Lara Croft with Tomb Raider: Anniversary, a new action adventure inspired by the original Tomb Raider video game, one of the greatest action adventure games of all time.

]]> 06 Jun 2007 04:27:29 Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions was revealed publicly on December 13, 2006 in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine as a PlayStation Portable port of Final Fantasy Tactics.

Release Dates:
Japan - May 10, 2007
US - October, 2007
Europe - October, 2007

Official Japanese Website: http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fft/


New Updates Unique to PSP version:

Cel-shaded full motion cut scenes shown in 16:9 aspect ratio to fit the PSP

Voice-overs are planned for the US release

Two new character classes - "Onion Knight" from FFIII and "Dark Knight" which was previously unique to Gafgarion, a character in FFT.

New characters, such as Balthier from FFXII, and Luso from FFTA2

Wireless competive and cooperative mode

New items and equipment

Increased character party limit

]]> 01 Jun 2007 08:31:14 "Tales of Phantasia is a Super Famicom game in the RPG genre published by Namco and released in Japan in 1995. It is the first game in the Tales RPG series and was later re-released or remade on the PlayStation, Nintendo Game Boy Advance and PlayStation Portable.

Tales of Phantasia begins by showing a heroic battle between four unknown warriors against an evil sorcerer, Dhaos, the outcome of which changed the fate of the world. The warriors were victorious, but Dhaos escapes through time. However, four different heroes are awaiting him: they seal the weakened Dhaos away using the power of two pendants, thus returning peace to the world."

(Taken from wikipedia)

Ten years later you play the hero of the story, Cless. Him and his party must journey together to defeat the evil that has once again come into the world. Traveling over the extensive "Tales of" universe.

]]> 11 May 2007 06:15:02 Transformers: The Game is a video game based on the 2007 Transformers movie. Activision and Traveller's Tales are currently developing the game, which allows people to play as either one of nine Autobot or Decepticons including characters not in the film.

The gameplay consists of "free roaming action adventure which draws upon racing, flying, combat, shooter and exploration elements."

Peter Cullen and Frank Welker will reprise their roles as Optimus Prime and Megatron.

There may be different play styles and abilities depending on the platform of choice.

]]> 11 May 2007 04:26:56 Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is a multiplatform/first person shooter/action adventure game based on the movie King Kong. It is a collaboration between the film's director Peter Jackson and famed videogame designer Michel Ancel (Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil), remarkable in that such true cross-medium creative partnerships are rare in the realm of game development.

In Peter Jackson's King Kong, the player assumes the roles of both New York playwright Jack Driscoll and the giant ape King Kong as they struggle to survive on Skull Island.

This game is exhibitive of an industry trend to de-emphasize the role of Heads-Up Displays: it lacks a life bar and ammunition readout (the ammo readout could be enabled), which makes the game more realistic. The player must rely on subtle onscreen and vocal cues from Jack instead. During the majority of the game the player is tasked with controlling Jack Driscoll in a first person view, a character given a realistic amount of health and equipped with largely ineffectual weaponry, further adding to the challenge and encouraging the player to find alternate weapons and techniques.

Interspersed with Driscoll's adventure are levels in which the player controls King Kong himself, battling various giant monsters in defense of Ann. The Kong levels take place in a third person view, as the player directs Kong to punch, grab and use objects and certain dead creatures as weapons, bite, throw objects and creatures, charge, climb, and even pound his chest to go into fury mode, a powerful mode in which the sky becomes a golden hue and Kong becomes more powerful, faster and less vulnerable to attacks. Many of the Kong sequences fulfill the role of boss fights, as the giant ape is able to effectively battle the gigantic V-Rexes that Jack's weapons cannot harm.

]]> 05 Apr 2007 12:52:25 Final Fight is a classic beat 'em up series from Capcom. It is considered to be Street Fighter's "cousin", and the two series are set in the same universe (characters like Guy, Hugo Andore, Rolento, Cody Travers and Poison have all appeared in later Street Fighter installments). Final Fight was originally released as an arcade game and was ported to several platforms, including the Super NES, Sega Mega-CD, Sharp X68000 and Game Boy Advance. It features former wrestler (as seen in Saturday Night Slam Masters), and mayor of Metro City (Capcom's fictitious city, modeled after New York City), Mike Haggar.

The story of Final Fight involves the abduction of Haggar's daughter, Jessica, because he would not work with Mad Gear to ensure their dominance of the streets. When the Mad Gear thug Damnd contacts Haggar and informs him, Haggar calls up his daughter's boyfriend Cody and his sparring partner Guy, and the three vigilantes head into the streets to bust Mad Gear's skulls, fighting their way through the hordes of goons littering the city (including the Rastafarian thug Damnd, the "Japanophile" Sodom, former Red Beret and militia leader Rolento, corrupt cop Edi. E, and the ill-tempered Abigail), to get to Mad Gear's boss, Belger.

Final Fight, whilst following in the footsteps of Double Dragon, was an innovative and balanced game. Unlike several beat 'em ups before it, Final Fight featured very large and detailed sprites for its day, and the controls were quite fluid and simple. Beginners could take to the game quickly, yet the game was balanced and difficult enough to ensure even experts could always expect a challenge for every new play. The game also began the strength-based, speed-based, and average character variety that countless other beat 'em up and other genres derived, as one controls Haggar (very powerful yet very slow and vulnerable to attack), Guy (very agile and can use hit-and-run, yet has weak offensive power), or Cody (who balances strength and speed, being an excellent choice for beginners). It also featured very long levels and various powerful enemies that could easily crowd the screen and had several fighting tactics against the player. It was not uncommon to hear people talk of how crowds would gather to watch whoever was playing the machine at the time.

]]> 05 Apr 2007 11:59:05 WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006 expands on THQ's popular multi-million unit-selling franchise with a number of key new features. The Buried Alive Casket match, two new wrestler attributes (Stamina and Hardcore), and a realistic momentum system all combine to turn the series away from its arcade roots and towards that of a simulation. Further additions to the game include a more robust online mode, improved character models and facial animations, a streamlined character creation mode, and more interactive backgrounds. Developed exclusively for the PlayStation 2, with USB link features to its PSP counterpart.

]]> 04 Apr 2007 11:04:31 Comix Zone is a unique and artistically rich beat 'em up originally developed for the Sega Mega Drive. It was also ported to the PC and GBA and is available in emulated form on the PS2, PSP and the Wii. The game was released in 1995 and was noted for its original premise and amazing graphics and sound which pushed Sega's 16-bit machine to its limits.

The game is essentially a one-player side-scrolling beat 'em up with a twist. The unique aspect of the game is quickly revealed to be its presentation. The player is in control of Sketch Turner, a comic book artist who is trapped within his own comic creation. The levels are literally panels of Sketch's comic. Each level consists of two pages some with alternate routes, each with different art and puzzles. Powerups and secrets are revealed by literally ripping paper and Sketch can even find help in the form of his pet rat Roadkill, who is trapped with Sketch and can be used in a fight or to help with solving a puzzle.

There are three episodes containing two levels, each with unique backgroud art consistent with real-life comic books. Dialouge is even displayed within speech bubbles that help forward the story without breaking the comic book mould.

]]> 04 Apr 2007 09:03:02 Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords is a brand new, genre-bending title that ups the ante on traditional puzzle games by incorporating strategy, role-playing elements and a persistent storyline. Set in the Warlords universe, the game challenges players to save the land of Etheria from evil Lord Bane as gamers engage in battles fought by means of competitive, head-to-head "match-three" style puzzle games in one of three gameplay modes: Single-player, Instant Action or Multiplayer. Victory will advance a player's customisable hero, magical arsenal, creature companions and more—ultimately rewarding gamers at nearly every turn and deepening their immersion into the richly diverse world. The game's remarkable mix of classic puzzle gameplay and an abundant suite of characters, customisations, spells, companions, tameable monsters and more provides a fresh take on the puzzle genre that offers endless hours of replayability. Designed specifically for handheld gaming systems, Puzzle Quest can be enjoyed in long or short doses, cultivating a casual but deeply satisfying and compelling gameplay experience.

]]> 31 Mar 2007 09:08:10 You are Twi'lek Rianna Soren, a skilled mercenary. Along with your security droid, Zeeo, battle your way through hostile forces, and steal the plans for the Empire's most feared weapon, the Death Star.

]]> 30 Mar 2007 10:43:01 This is a soccer based sports management game where you select the team and tactics, decide training regimes and attempt to sign players and build a dynasty.

]]> 29 Mar 2007 09:10:55 TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge roars in with a cavalcade of officially licensed racecars, world-famous tracks and a new, progressive central game mode – the World Challenge. As the piston-pumping heart of the game, the World Challenge has players competing through a series of international championship tiers, each packed with skill tests, specialised events and championships that span different racing styles.

Each World Challenge tier is designed to enhance and expand your race driving skills and experience. First, a series of tests and events will build your racing prowess in areas such as damage control, using the racing line, manoeuvring, timely pit stops and braking accuracy. Now you’re ready for the main event: the tier’s specialist Championship season with a series of closely-fought multiple car races on different circuits. Come first overall in the championship and you’ll move up to compete in the next tier of the World Challenge.

Throughout TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge, you’ll be racing the world as each tier has its own international location and theme: from the British GP, to the heavyweight touring cars of Australia’s V8 Supercars and Germany’s DTM events, through to American Race series across the USA and then to a global Masters championship tier where you’ll compete against the best of the best.

Of course, with all this competitive racing, TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge features spectacular collisions thanks to its realistic damage system; sparks fly when you bottom out, smoke billows from tyres, doors flap, windscreens shatter, wings get ripped off, spoilers break and fly from the car and bodywork realistically deforms with every impact.

In addition to the World Challenge, TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge comes loaded with additional play modes including Free Race and Time Trial. There’s also wireless WLAN multiplayer action play for up to a staggering 12 players simultaneously and further multiplayer action via Game Share, enabling up to four players to enjoy fantastic WLAN racing from just one UMD.

]]> 17 Mar 2007 04:03:30 James Bond 007 : From Russia With Love will be the first game to put players in the universe of the classic James Bond films. Set in the original 60's Bond era, the game features movie-based missions as well as original, action-intensive sequences, a broad and deep variety of gameplay, fully-integrated vehicles, social multiplayer experiences, gorgeous women, and classic, upgradeable weapons and gadgetry with modern mechanics.

]]> 07 Mar 2007 06:06:18 The second original SOCOM mission for PSP, Fireteam Bravo 2 ups the ante with a new Command Equity system, 10 new multiplayer maps, new multiplayer game types, enhanced cross-talk features with SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Combined Assault, and a more open mission structure.

]]> 07 Mar 2007 04:31:21 Original to the PSP, this title created in association with the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command. Players are tasked with completing 14 realistic international single-player missions. After successfully completing a level, players can replay the mission in an entirely new way through the "Instant Action" option, with different objectives, enemy and object placement.

In addition, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo is one of the first titles for PSP to offer interoperability with PlayStation 2 through SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs in "crosstalk" objectives. Objectives completion in one SOCOM game will affect the overall play experience in both games. Once a crosstalk task is completed, the player will be notified and able to sync mission critical data from PSP to PlayStation 2 through a USB connection.

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